Solar panel recycling company SOLARCYCLE announced it will be opening a 5 GW recycling facility in Cedartown, Georgia.
The company is working with Georgia Governor Brian P. Kemp on the 255,000 square foot project.
The facility will have the capacity to recycle and recover materials from 10 million solar panels each year, which equates to about 25-30% of the country’s retired solar panels in 2030. It will recycle 2 million solar panels per year before scaling as SOLARCYCLE meets market demand for end-of-life solar services.
The new facility will be adjacent to the company’s solar glass factory, which will be the first in the U.S. to produce specialized glass for building crystalline-silicon PVs with the capacity to manufacture 5-6 GW of solar glass each year.
SOLARCYCLE plans to provide full-time jobs to more than 1250 employees between both its locations.
“We are pleased to accelerate our work in Cedartown, Georgia in response to continued demand for solar recycling. By scaling recycling and solar glass manufacturing through a vertically integrated process, we are filling a critical gap in America’s solar supply chain and closing the loop for domestic solar manufacturing,” said Suvi Sharma, CEO and Co-Founder of SOLARCYCLE, in a statement.
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